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   Obama, McCain turn on empathy as second debate opens

   AFP - 53 minutes ago

   NASHVILLE, Tennessee, (AFP) - - John McCain and Barack Obama clashed repeatedly over the financial crisis Tuesday but strove to show voters they cared about their economic fears in their second presidential debate. More »

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   Pope decries godless nature of modern societies

   AP - Monday, October 6

   ROME - Pope Benedict XVI warned Sunday that modern culture is pushing God out of people's lives, causing nations once rich in religious faith to lose their identities. More »

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   Europe fights financial storm as bank deal collapses

   AFP - Sunday, October 5

   PARIS, (AFP) - - The leaders of Europe's four main economic powers vowed to protect fragile banks in their fight against the global credit crisis as the biggest rescue in German financial history collapsed. More »

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   US House approves sweetened finance deal

   AFP - Saturday, October 4

   WASHINGTON (AFP) - - The US House of Representatives on Friday approved a revised 700-billion-dollar Wall Street bailout, bowing to intense pressure to help avert a global economic meltdown. More »

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   Burning vacuum cleaner likely cause of ship fire

   AP - Wednesday, October 1

   LONDON - A fire that tore through a famous 19th-century British ship was likely caused by a vacuum cleaner used for renovation work bursting into flames, police said Tuesday. More »

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   Prosecutor named to probe controversial US attorney firings

   AFP - Tuesday, September 30

   WASHINGTON, (AFP) - - Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Monday he will appoint a prosecutor to investigate whether his predecessor Alberto Gonzales and others involved in the firings of nine US attorneys broke the law. More »

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   Diplomats: US asks IAEA for full Syria report

   AP - Friday, September 26

   VIENNA, Austria - The United States asked the U.N. nuclear monitoring agency Thursday for a fuller accounting of its probe of Syria's alleged efforts to secretly develop a plutonium-producing facility at a site bombed by Israel. More »

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   House ethics launches investigation of Rangel

   AP - Thursday, September 25

   WASHINGTON - The House ethics committee said Wednesday it was establishing an investigative panel to determine whether Rep. More »

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   Q&A about problems with Large Hadron Collider

   AP - Sunday, September 21

   GENEVA - The damage to the Large Hadron Collider on the Swiss-French border will delay for at least two months the quest for scientists to learn more about the nature of the universe and the origins of all matter. More »